St. Anna (Sedlec)
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The Catholic parish church of St. Anna (Czech Kostel sv. Anny ) in Sedlec (German Zettlitz ), a district of the city of Karlsbad in the Czech Republic, is a protected architectural monument. Today's baroque church was built from 1738 to 1749 in place of a previous Gothic building. The parish was once the original parish of the Karlovy Vary region and in the 17th and 18th centuries. Century an important pilgrimage destination.
history
The origins of the church go back to the 10th century. The place was first mentioned in 973 in connection with the establishment of the diocese of Prague . Since 980 the village was the seat of an archdeacon . In 1290 a new brick church was built, of which a pointed arch is still preserved in the sacristy. The consecration was carried out in 1293 by the Prague bishop Tobias. The large parish originally also included Karlsbad and Engelhaus . From 1571 to 1624 the church was provided with a Lutheran clergyman. Zettlitz and the surrounding communities were still Protestant in 1630.
After the Thirty Years' War , Catholic worship was reintroduced. The first Catholic priest after the Reformation was Kaspar Haas, who headed the parish from 1655 to 1672 and reintroduced pilgrimage. The destination of many pilgrims, the statue of St. Anna Selbdritt , once stood on the high altar. In 1694 the church was elevated to a pilgrimage church. In 1698, the carpenter Martin Möckl gave the church a new side altar of St. Johannes von Nepomuk, designed by the painter Johann Carl Schnäbrich. The second side altar showed St. Martin. Both were replaced in the 19th century.
In 1721 Empress Elisabeth Christine , who was on a cure in Karlovy Vary, visited the church with her daughter Archduchess Maria Theresa and in 1732 once more in the company of her husband Emperor Karl VI. Since the old church, which had become too small, could no longer accommodate all pilgrims, the pastor Franz Anton Plank tried on April 26, 1737 in Rastatt to convince the church patron, Margrave Ludwig Georg of Baden-Baden, to build a new building. After several negotiations, the application was finally approved.
Work began in the spring of 1738 with the construction of the presbytery. It is possible that the builder Johann Schmidt carried out the new building according to the simplified plans of the architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer . The building material was obtained from a nearby quarry "ohnweith an dem Premblowitz old brewery" . The interior frescoes were created by the painter Elias Dollhopf from Schlaggenwald. In 1746, the builder Schmidt requested additional wood for the roof structure. The consecration took place in 1750.
In 1769, the canon of Prague, Georg Adam Englert, who was born in Altrohlau , venerated the miraculous image of Maria Hilf , which was supposedly erected on the White Mountain on November 8, 1620 after the victory of the imperial army and from there later came into the possession of Englert in Prague. In 1791 the Altrohlau branch with Putschirn was elevated to a separate parish. In 1836 the old cemetery that surrounded the church was moved south of the village.
In 1930 the parish had 14,498 Catholics. In 1938 the parish comprised the following villages: Zettlitz with Premlowitz, Aich, Dallwitz, Hohendorf, Janessen with Haselpeint, Ottowitz, Roßnitz, Schankau, Schobrowitz, Sittmesgrün, Sodau, Spittengrün, Taschwitz, Weheditz and partly Halmgrün. The last German pastor was Rudolf Hacker, who was born in Zettlitz. On July 24, 1949, the then Defense Minister and later President Ludvík Svoboda visited the church. In the 1960s, geological exploration work was carried out under the church, but stopped because of the high titanium dioxide content , thus preventing an impending demolition. There were still isolated pilgrimages in the 1980s.
In 2009 the church received a new roof. The Czech Ministry of Culture, the Region and City of Karlovy Vary contributed an amount of CZK 820,000 to the project. A citizens' association was founded to finance a complete renovation.
description
Single-aisle baroque church with presbytery on a rectangular floor plan. The prismatic tower with onion dome is located on the east gable facade, which is divided by pilasters. The longitudinal walls are interrupted by three high rectangular windows each.
Furnishing
The interior is kept in a uniform baroque style. The main altar with rich carvings comes from the Schlackenwerther master carpenter Tschammerholl from the year 1748. The wall and ceiling paintings were created by the painter Elias Dollhopf from Schlaggenwald. In addition, sculptures by the sculptor J. Waitzmann from Kaaden and a wooden Madonna from the end of the 15th century have been preserved. The colored glass windows come from the Gottl family from Innsbruck.
Peal
In the tower hangs a bell from 1588 by the bell founder Gregor Albrecht from Schlackenwerth. It has a diameter of 0.9 m and a height of 085 m. The inscription reads: “ Pin made for God's honor, Greger Albrecht gave me a go to Schlackenwerdt, in the 1588th jar ”. On the opposite side are the words: "To honor god and demand of / predigtamptes in Zettlitz decreed / and (now) with (alutis) reparate 1588 circa festum / pentecostes" and on the wreath: "Michel Leickoff / Görg Schmit / Dieselbeit / Pedter Anderle / Jackoff Moysses / Kirchenvätter ” .
There are also two steel bells from 1918 in the tower. Two more bells in honor of St. Joachim from the bell founder Balthasar Platzer from Eger from 1720 and one from 1747 with the inscription: " Domine, Rex Gloriae, Veni Nobis cum Pace" were probably melted down for war purposes.
literature
- Josef Schöniger: Zettlitz near Karlsbad: History of the St. Anna parish and pilgrimage church in Zettlitz from the year 900 to 1900; for the millennial memory of the existence of this church, self-published, 1900
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Hemmerle: Sudetenland: Signpost - through an unforgettable country . Flechsig, 2002, ISBN 978-3-88189-440-1 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
- ↑ Elbogner Kreis: 15 . Ehrlich, 1847 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
- ^ Genealogy: Bohemia, Sudetenland, Parish Books, Zettlitz, Karlsbad. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Jaroslav Vyčichlo: Sedlec - kostel sv. Anny | Památky a příroda Karlovarska. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .